NUTRITIONAL RICKETS IN SYDNEY
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Four patients with nutritional rickets seen at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children during 1969 are described. In the five years preceding, only one patient was diagnosed as having nutritional rickets at this hospital. Three of the patients had recently arrived in this country. Two presented with convulsions, one with a severe chest infection, and the remaining patient was diagnosed by routine chest X-ray examination. Ignorance of the necessity for exposure to the sun and supplementation of the diet was an apparent feature of all cases. The most generally accepted daily vitamin D requirement of infants is 400 to 700 IU per day.
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Four patients with nutritional rickets seen at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children during 1969 are described. In the five years preceding, only one patient was diagnosed as having nutritional rickets at this hospital. Three of the patients had recently arrived in this country. Two presented with convulsions, one with a severe chest infection, and the remaining patient was diagnosed by routine chest X-ray examination. Ignorance of the necessity for exposure to the sun and supplementation of the diet was an apparent feature of all cases. The most generally accepted daily vitamin D requirement of infants is 400 to 700 IU per day.
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